File Sharing and Ownership issues in Vista

Soldato
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Hi,

I'm having a little trouble getting the sharing/ownership settings right in Vista. I have a folder (downloads) which is shared to everyone across the network.

When new items are put in there from various download clients, they aren't visible over the network. The problem seems to arise because of the ownership settings when the file is created there. If I make a copy of the file in the same directory it is visible over the network, I can mess with the ownership settings of the original file as much as I want but it never shows on the network share.

Can anyone give me some help on how best to solve this?

Cheers
 
Are the download clients automated?
You could probably get a command line script that sets ownership of files for you on startup or scheduled to run regularly.
 
Not really automated, just stick the files in the correct folder when they're done. Funny thing is, I've had this problem before but I fixed it/fixed itself prior to this install - I must be doing something different this time around.
 
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